The University of Sheffield School of Architecture Graduate School Catalogue 2014
Contents Foreword Graduate School Completed PhD Thesis Projects 5 Research 6 field: 7
www.shef.ac.uk/architecture @SSoA_News Cover Image A selection of MArch Projects The University of Sheffield School of Architecture would like to thank the technical and administrative team for their continued support and input throughout the year. In particular Peter Williams for his outstanding service to the school and we wish him a happy retirement. We would also like to thank all of our contributors, everyone involved in curating the exhibition and everyone involved in compiling this catalogue.
Events and Activities Theory Forum 2013 - Thinking Resilience SSoA Forum 2014 - Retrofitting Neighbourhoods SUAS Sheffield 1900 Study Summer Schools Architecture Students Network Student Competitions
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Awards and Recognition
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Foreword Sheffield School of Architecture has an enviable international reputation for its social commitment to making a positive difference in the world. This catalogue of our annual exhibition is a testament to that ethos. From regenerating Zanzibar’s urban areas with raw natural materials to re-energising Heeley in Sheffield with potato power – our students’ imagination is as boundless and fertile as ever. I’d like to invite you to experience this creativity over the coming pages and enjoy the year’s work as much as we have. We started the year with a stimulating Summer School for Chinese students from Harbin Institute of Technology, who we have been collaborating with for the last three years. In London, we held another hugely successful Alumni Event with over 150 turning out to hear the likes of alumni Stephen Proctor, Jane Rendall, Andrew Groarke, Annalie Riches and David Cash talk about the challenging future for architecture. In February, over 300 of our students took part in the Whole School Event occupying empty shops and buildings in the heart of Sheffield for a series of twenty workshops exploring new ways to interpret and regenerate our own city.We were inspired by the urbanist and broadcaster Marcus Westbury, who travelled over from Newcastle, Australia to lecture to a packed audience on regenerating retail quarters through temporary use. New initiatives this year include the launch of a Masters in Digital Design and Interactive Built Environments and the development of an exciting MArch programme, ‘Collaborative Practice,’ which will allow students to study while in practice– a much needed alternative given the pressing debt problems that students now experience in the UK and beyond. Research is a driving force in the School and we continue to innovative in this area. This year we had two hugely successful parliamentary events on parking in housing developments and collective custom build as part of the ground-breaking ‘Home Improvements’ knowledge exchange project led by Flora Samuels. A major new interdisciplinary project on Designing for Well-being in Environments for Later Life is being led by Sarah Wigglesworth. Meanwhile our academics continue to build, publish and exhibit across the globe – from MOMA, New York to Leeds and from Ahmedabad, India to the London V&A. Our acoustics and lighting research is second to none and we excel in the humanities. Our staff and alumni swept the board at the Regional RIBA awards, taking no less than nine out of sixteen prizes and in addition five out the seven special awards. Masters student Fay al Khalifa won the RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding Master’s Degree Thesis in the RIBA President’s Research Awards 2013. MArch graduate Chris Parrott was the post graduate runner-up in the Global Architecture Graduate Awards (GAGA) 2013 which attracted hundreds of entries. It is for reasons like this that Sheffield was ranked second out of all 46 Schools in the UK National Student Survey for overall satisfaction and again scored strongly in the Architects Journal’s AJ100, being rated as the UK’s 2nd best architecture school by architectural practices. My thanks go to all the staff, students, visiting guests, reviewers, alumni and sponsors who help to make us probably one of the best Schools of Architecture in the world. No room for complacency though, with the biggest challenge of all – climate change – upon us. It’s time to act… our international Architecture and Resilient Neighbourhoods conference is in September 2015. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank AHMM, BDP, Bond Bryan, Bauman Lyons, Capita, Grimshaw, John McAslan, Hawkins Brown, HLM, HCD, MSMR, OMI, Proctor Matthews, Piercy + Co, RMA and SAPA for their support, sponsorship and donations. Fionn Stevenson Head of School
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Completed PhD Thesis Projects
The study of flows in the intersection between informal system and city network to inform architectural design methods towards Jakarta’s ecological development
With almost 90 PhD students and 130 Taught Masters students from the UK, Europe and further afield, the School has one of the largest cohorts of architecturally based research students in the UK, reflecting its pre-eminence in the field of architectural research.The Graduate School embraces these Doctoral and Taught Masters programmes, it fosters links between post-graduate students and research staff, and supports the flourishing research culture within the School. Our postgraduate research is intrinsically inter-disciplinary and is open to students with an interest in any aspect of architectural research.These include histories, theories, practices and politics of architecture, environmental design (lighting, acoustics and the thermal environment), sustainability and structures, design processes and user behaviour, computer-aided design, emergent systems and complexity, socio-technical systems (particularly related to sustainable energy technologies) urban design and development, community design and participation, places and place making, children’s environments, feminist approaches, and transformative education.
04 A Forty Year Encounter with Hans Scharoun
05 Social Sustainability and Public Life in Iranian Squares: The Case of Naghshe Jahan Square
Professor Peter Blundell Jones
When I finished my studies at the AA in London in 1972, there were no facilities to carry on to a PhD, so although my final year history dissertation on Hans Scharoun became the basis for a book contract with Gordon Fraser (published 1978), it was developed and written outside the academic realm. In that year I joined the staff at Cambridge and found a role as critic and historian, going on eventually to write several more books – on Häring, the Grazer Schule, Behnisch, Asplund, and Modern Architecture Through Case Studies, and I rose to Reader at the South Bank then Professor at Sheffield from 1994. Having achieved With a tradition of innovative education, our Graduate School encourages student-led initiatives and exchanges in research and education. We have a lively postgraduate student society, GAS, which organises the Chair it seemed hardly necessary to possess a PhD, until I had Figure 1. Informal and City Infrastructure 01 social events and seminars, film nights and lunchtime research meetings. The Graduate School also organizes informal meetings and formal public presentations for PhD students; focused events such as the Visual the embarrassing experience of being asked to examine a PhD in Current d esign m ethodologies i n u rban p ractices a re n ot a ppropriate i n d ealing w ith J akarta Methods Symposium for PhD by Design students; and other research cluster activities such as the on-going East-West seminars, Lines of Flight, the Home Group; and international events. Spain and then being told I was not qualified to do it. Our university complexities. This thesis proposes to use the study of ecology and particularly the idea of flow to unfold has insitituted PhD by publication requiring the submission of a Jakarta complexities as the capital city of Indonesia in relation to its informal system as the important book or books along with a 15,000 word commentary, so I chose Our students continue to win prizes for their work. For example, this year Fay al Khalifa has won the RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding Master’s Degree Thesis in the RIBA President’s Research Awards part of Jakarta’s economy. The aim of this research is to investigate flows of people and their logistics the revised version of the Scharoun monograph (Phaidon 1995) 2013, and Lakshmi Priya Rajendran won the top prize for a PhD paper at the LCSS (London Centre for Social Science) 2013 Conference on Methodological Choices and Challenges, King’s College London. (raw material, goods, energy, water and waste) in informal systems (informal market, industries or settlements) that situated along infrastructure network (railways and river). The objective of this complemented with several more recent papers, and wrote a research is to observe how flow of people, logistics, and infrastructure (train frequency, traffic jam commentary on my encounter with Scharoun and his work, These two pages of the catalogue offer a snapshot of different individual research projects happening in the Graduate School. times) interact with each other informally and change the use of space in the area and its environmental welcoming this as a chance to lay out the history of my studies Relationships between these flows redefine the space as the space of flows. Other than the ‘Adding Meaning to Limplications. ynch’s I mageability t hrough a n I nvestigation o f S ocial S ymbols b y Y oung and its system as far as it has one, noting the sources and how it flow dynamics, investigation of space of flows also enables understanding of interrelationships between developed. I hope this may be of some general interest in showing urban elements, especially between micro systems and the larger ones (macro) such as the city network Adults i n K ampungs o f S urabaya-‐Indonesia’ of infrastructure. The space of flow will be influenced by how matter is directed to other system in a how histories develop through the practice of criticism. specific time frame and frequency. The space o f flows will be the site where the informal matter’s 01 02 03 direction is negotiated, diverted and detoured based on a specific time frame and how it connect to the Rully D amayanti The Study of Flows in the Intersection Between Informal System Adding Meaning to Lynch’s Imageability through an Investigation Sanctioned Surveillance Gate Village; Pyla environment interdependently. This thesis aims to employ the practice of mapping in exploring this and City Network to Inform Architectural Design Methods of Social Symbols by Young Adults in Kampungs of Surabaya negotiation, diversion and detour of the flows and therefore map the space of flows in the city. Towards Jakarta’s Ecological Development Indonesia Cagri Sanliturk Florian Kossak, Steven Walker Supervisor: Dr Nishat Awan Kristanti Paramita Rully Damayanti Supervisors: Dr Tatjana Schneider and Dr Stephen Walker Supervisors: Dr Florian Kossak and Dr Steven Walker My premier aim in seeking PhD research is scrutinize the 01 correlational aspects of architecture, politics, borders and how Figure 2. Space of Flows and City Ecologies Current design methodologies in urban practices are not Kevin Lynch’s theory in the ‘Image of the City’ (1960) has been they integrate in situation of Turkish and Greek Cypriot conflict appropriate in dealing with Jakarta complexities. This thesis widely accepted in urban design and architecture education, in Cyprus. What is fascinate me in the light of this political and proposes to use the study of ecology and particularly the idea of practices and public policy. This research extends Lynch’s power conflict in Cyprus is that there is one small village is some flow to unfold Jakarta complexities as the capital city of Indonesia theory by adding ‘meaning’ to the urban space analysis. Lynch how inapplicable, still resisting to the existent conflict, Pyla (Pile), in relation to its informal system as the important part of Jakarta’s put ‘meaning’ as the least important factor after ‘identity and the name of the village which is the last remaining village in Cyprus economy. structure’. Meaning of space is given through the psychological located in the Green line/ Buffer Zone/ Dead zone to has hybrid bond of place attachment that attracts people’s experience in population of both Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Pyla has taken as The aim of this research is to investigate flows of people and their their perception and conception; and expresses the social symbol deliberation to investigate space between two different ethnicity logistics (raw material, goods, energy, water and waste) in informal of the individual/group. group, territories, and zones. I am seeking for potential space, systems (informal market, industries or settlements) that situated tools, strategies that can create the civic engagement and bridge along infrastructure network (railways and river). The objective This research explores the urban elements that are represented the gap between two different cultural groups in bi-communal of this research is to observe how flow of people, logistics, and as social symbols by young adults living in kampungs (urban village. infrastructure (train frequency, traffic jam times) interact with village) in Surabaya, Indonesia. The case study are kampungs that each other informally and change the use of space in the area carry a low legibility factors and young adults who experience Cyprus conflict has been raised starting on 1960s until today and and its environmental implications. Relationships between these social discrimination of the contrast condition between their it is still remaining. Politicians have an effort to have an agreement flows redefine the space as the space of flows. Other than the neighbourhood and the central business district, which are and negotiations along a period of 30 years but every attempt flow dynamics, investigation of space of flows also enables in juxtaposition. The exploration is through an observational concluded with the failure. Now, We are stood up against to each 02 understanding of interrelationships between urban elements, framework of ‘reading and understanding’ urban space of three other (Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot) like two different especially between micro systems and the larger ones (macro) layers of spaces: perceived-conceived-lived. Reading the physical communities, cultures and ethnicities. As a result, Pyla today is such as the city network of infrastructure. attributes through their identity and structure (legibility factor/ isolated with and absent of unclaimed space, lack of appropriation perceived), and understanding the spaces through the observation of space and lack of sense of belongingness. The space of flow will be influenced by how matter is directed of conceived and lived spaces. Kevin Lynch’s theory in the ‘Image of the City’ (1960) has been widely accepted in urban design and to other system in a specific time frame and frequency. The space Examining discourse of daily life also shows how they resist their of flows will be the site where the informal matter’s direction is The research uses qualitative approach by applying techniques own spatial and environmental conditions. In theory and based architecture education, practices and public policy. This research extends Lynch’s theory by adding negotiated, diverted and detoured based on a specific time frame of: mental maps, interview, observation, map identification, and on the map village is unified and integrated both community the urban space analysis. Lynch put ‘meaning’ as the least important factor after and how it connect to the environment interdependently. This an archival study. The identified social symbols are elements unfortunately there is no evidence of ‘meaning’ doing or livingto together in thesis aims to employ the practice of mapping in exploring this that bear a strong attachment related to the young adults’ social the village. I am going to cover the reasons of segregation in the ‘identity and structure’. Meaning of space is given through the psychological bond of place negotiation, diversion and detour of the flows and therefore map activity. These elements are not fixed in terms of location, have light of mechanism of power. What is going to be essential in this attachment that attracts people’s experience in their perception and conception; and expresses the the space of flows in the city. low physical characteristics, connect to the modern lifestyle for PhD by Design research is to engagement of two communities pleasure and earning money, express their braveness and no-fear with dynamic participatory design project and sitesymbol based strategies. social of the individual/group. This research explores the urban elements that are feelings. These findings are extending Lynch’s concept of analysing represented as social symbols by young adults living in kampungs (urban village) in Surabaya, urban space by focusing on the meaning observation.
Noushin Zand Vosoughi Supervisors: Dr Cristina Cerulli and Professor Doina Petrescu
The Graduate School offers several Postgraduate Taught Masters programmes, which draw strongly on the School of Architecture´s intellectual ethos, which emphasises social and environmental responsibilities in relation to the design and production of the built environment. Each programme is tailored to meet the specific needs and interests of its students and to build on the strengths of the contributing academic staff. The programmes range from architectural design to participatory urban design, conservation and regeneration, sustainable architecture and designing learning environments, with a new programme in digital design and interactive built environments being introduced next year. The aim of our programmes is to equip students with the knowledge and skills for international careers in academia, research, practice and other commercial and professional fields where an advanced understanding of the built environment is an advantage. Each of the Masters programmes also gives training in research methods in different areas, relevant to students wishing to pursue further study at PhD level. The Taught Masters programmes run alongside our professionally recognised MArch in Architecture (RIBA Part 2). All courses are for a full 12-month study period (24 months if taken part-time).
Indonesia. The case study are kampungs that carry a low legibility factors and young adults who experience social discrimination of the contrast condition between their neighbourhood and the central business district, 03which are in juxtaposition. The exploration is through an observational framework of ‘reading and understanding’ urban space of three layers of spaces: perceived-‐
Town squares in Iranian cities have been places in which people can take part in social interaction, cultural exchange, economic activities and political events which can be shared by different socio-economic and cultural groups of people. This study focuses on the potential role of Iranian town squares in public life and more social sustainability. By referring to the history of Iranian cities, it can be understood that Iranian squares were very useful in improving the quality of life and they played an important role in showing the identity of the cities. Presently, some of them are still thriving and useable and they are one of the significant factors that make their city sustainable. In addition, they improve the quality of life in the cities by providing spaces for exchange and socializing. This study developed a new understanding of Iranian squares based on how they have been produced, how they have been used and how they affect people’s lives. In this regard, Naghsh-e-Jahan Square was chosen as the case study to dissect in detail. Naghsh-e-Jahan Square is located in Isfahan city one of the biggest Iranian cities. The researcher as an architect who does not live in Isfahan city explored this square in detail. Although not living in Isfahan and being far from the case study brought some limitations for the researcher such as she could not manage to be in Naghshe-Jahan Square during different religious, political or any other occasions that take place in the square annually and also the researcher could not find more different groups for interviews during the short time of staying in Isfahan. The researcher point of view as an architect has been considered in this study especially in walking strategies approach; however the researcher tried to suspend her opinions during interviews and drawing. This study shows how Naghsh-e-Jahan Square as the case study is successful in addressing the changes in society by adapting itself to people’s needs during the centuries. Also, another emphasis of this study is on the lessons that can be learnt from Naghsh-e-Jahan square. The results of this study can support urban planners in that they will provide information to assist them in developing and designing new public urban spaces and especially town squares in Iran. Also, the result of this study can be applied to the existing traditional town squares that are not as successful as Naghsh-eJahan Square.
06 Typography After Contemporary Art Ruth Blacksell Supervisor: Dr Steven Walker This thesis cross-references two periods of specific disciplinary engagement that have featured in post-1960s Art and Typographic Design: It looks firstly at 1960s–70s text-based Conceptual Art and then at 1970s–1990s ‘experimental’ typography and considers how these separate engagements have, in similar ways, contested the notion of text as a transparent or neutral conveyor of preexisting content, exploring instead the idea of text being active in the construction of meaning through interplays between author, text and reader. By considering how connections between these engagements derive from shared points of historical and theoretical lineage, questions are posed about what different disciplinary engagements can say to one another and whether or not disciplinary crossreferencing can prove useful in accounting for an emerging interdisciplinary territory. In this instance, it is proposed that Conceptual artworks cannot be understood via normal evaluations of typographic communication and require instead a specific understanding of how this adoption of text-based means was part of a very precise art historical and theoretical progression. However, it is also acknowledged that without any informed typographic analysis, it is difficult to fathom how exactly these works can be understood in terms of their published typographic status as pieces of Conceptual Art. Similarly, with the debate following experimental typographic practices of the 1970s–80s, it is proposed that Conceptual Art could have contributed a much more rigorous demonstration of the key role played by typographic engagement in the shift away from medium-specific modernism. Indeed, referring to the importance of the critical collapse of modernism in Art, it is proposed that one has to look at examples of Conceptual Art to understand the full significance of such experimental shifts towards active author/reader engagements and how these connect to the emergence of contemporary inter-disciplinary practices, which have continued to elaborate upon this territory.
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“Soci al sustain abilit y and public life in Ir ani an Squares:
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First supervisor: Dr Cristina Cerulli Second supervisor: Professor Doina Petrescu Name of student: Noushin Zand Vosoughi Registration no: 090115330
figure xx Two articles from the ‘Critique’ section of subsequent issues of Arts Magazine, to demonstrate the magazine’s
house-style for page-layout: 06 continued (top) The artist as bookmaker [II]: The book as object’ by Dan Graham, vol. 41, no.8, summer 1967, page 23
(bottom) ‘Four interviews: with Barry, Huebler, Kosuth, Weiner’ by Arthur R.Rose’, vol. 43, no. 4, February 1969, pages 22–23. Image source listed in Figure sources bibliography
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SSoA is one of the top five research schools of architecture in UK. Following on from excellent ratings (Grade 5) in the two previous Research Assessment Exercise, SSoA is the only School in the UK to have achieved and maintained this level of research performance, the culmination of a long history with contributions from generations of scholars, researchers and students.
field: is an international peer-reviewed journal that is available free online and with occasional limited edition print runs. It was launched in 2007 to provide an open access resource for innovative research in the architectural humanities.
With 25 active research staff and approximately 90 postgraduate research students, the school consistently attracts external funding for its research and is involved internationally with a range of research projects. We do not see research as an isolated academic activity, but aim to shape the national research agenda and policy on the environment and to pro-actively address public and professional needs. In addition to external academic and industry partners, SSoA collaborations has established within the University and City – Sheffield Urban Institute, Methods Institute, Engaged University.
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Research is carried out in three research clusters: Architectural History and Theory; Architectural Sciences and Technology; Community, Participation and Future Practice. Each cluster brings together academic staff, researchers and postgraduate research students within common areas of interest.We have developed a shared socio-technical research platform to act as a locus for all our researchers.The platform, Building Local Resilience (BLR) brings together work on sustainability, participation and civic engagement. In addition, SSoA develops world class practice based research both within the work of staff and students through collaborative leadership and collegiate support. We are committed also to gradually embed carbon literacy in learning and teaching through the Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design.
The next issue of field: Issue 6 on ‘Urban Blindspots’ will soon be available online.
Some of this years key research events include: Thinking Resilience SSoA 15th Theory Forum 19-20th November 2013 Retrofitting Neighbourhoods: Change Makers in search of Resilience. Lecture series co-organised by BLR, SUAS and Agency. February – March 2014 Launch of SSoA research book 2008-2013, as part of Love Architecture Festival 2014 – 24 June 2014
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Architectural Sciences and Technology Acoustics Group Lighting Research Steel and Composite Structures Research – Architecture Sustainable Design, People and Performance Group Digital Design + Performance Healing Architecture Community, Participation and Future Practice Agency Home Bureau - Design + Research (BDR) Children’s Architecture Unit (CAU) Building Local Resilience (BLR) Academics Dr Nishat Awan Diversity, post-coloniality and geo-politics in spatial practice, creative research methodologies, alternative modes of practice, intersection of architectural, computational and artistic practice. Professor Peter Blundell Jones Architectural history and theory of the 19th and 20th centuries, architectural anthropology, urban history, writing and criticism. Professor Irena Bauman Drivers of change, changing role of the architect, community enabling and community led regeneration, climate change, adaptation, retrofitting neighbourhoods, new methodologies. Dr Cristina Cerulli Knowledge in design processes, emergence and complexity, non conventional practice, management and procurement. Prue Chiles Architectural and urban design and new futures, participative processes, learning environments, re-defining contemporary architectural practice, home environments and their anthropology, and research by design. Dr Rachel Cruise Structural Engineers, Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Assessment, the relationship between structural engineering and architecture, methodologies of design, fabrication and production processes.
Dr Beatrice De Carli Sustainable architecture, informal settlements, disaster risk reduction, urban society, inequality and resources.
Professor Doina Petrescu Gender and space within contemporary society, participation in architecture, culture and resilience.
Professor Steve Fotios Research in lighting, research methods for visual psychophysics, building services, and environmental design.
Professor Flora Samuel Architectural history, neglected narratives, gender, film theory, value of architecture, homes and housebuilding, practice-based research.
Dr Teresa Hoskyns Democracy and public space, democratic spatial practice and activism, civil society, feminist theory and practice, humanitarian responses, Architecture sans Frontiers (ASF).
Dr Tatjana Schnieder Social and political context of architecture, an ethical and expanded role of the architect, architecture as a collaborative, empowering and political discipline.
Dr Lucy Jones The sociology of sustainable architecture, eco-housing, identity and values, architectural philosophy, phenomenography, planning theory, straw-bale building, self-build, environmental campaigns, and activist geographies.
Professor Fionn Stevenson Ecological approaches, sustainable design, climate change, bioregional contexts, tacit knowledge, occupancy feedback, building performance evaluation.
Professor Jian Kang Computer simulation for room acoustics and environmental noise control, auralisation, urban soundscape and acoustic comfort considering social and psychological aspects of sounds, acoustic scalemodeling, acoustic materials.
Dr Renata Tyszczuk Cultural transformations and transitional periods, concepts of sustainability, global environmental change and globalization, experimental representational practices, communicative aspects of architecture across different media.
Dr Florian Kossak Urban history, contemporary urbanism, urban design, experimental mediation of architecture.
Dr Stephen Walker Art, architectural and critical theory, relation of theory to art and architecture practice, urbanism and urban issues.
Dr Jo Lintonbon Urban history and theory of the 19th and 20th centuries, building conservation and conservation led urban regeneration, design approaches within the historic built environment.
Dr Tsung-Hsien Wang Lecturer in Sustainable Digital Design - architectural geometry construction from a parametric and generative perspective, digital fabrication, building performance simulation, sustainability evaluation and information interoperation in the building domain.
Dr Mark Meagher Augmented environments, digital forms of making, smart materials, information visualization, architecture and social media. Dr Rosie Parnell Children and young people’s environments, learning environments, the user in design and education. Dr Chengzhi Peng Interactive architectural and urban visualisation modelling, e-documentation of heritage sites, mixed reality modelling and interaction, co-design of virtual and physical spaces. Dr Michael Phiri health care environments, design impacts on health outcomes, evidence based design, assistive technologies, building information management systems, sensor technologies, robotics.
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Art And Design Editors John Sampson with Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider and Renata Tyszczuk 03 Contact field@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Sarah Wigglesworth Theory/Practice and professionalism in architecture; gender and practice; low energy design of buildings and sustainable environments; the role of representation in architectural thought. Research Associates Dr Francesco Aletta Dr Jo Birch Dr Holly Castleton Dr Chris Cheal Dr Mark Dudek Dr Efstathios Margaritis Adam Park Dr Maria Patsarika Dr Maša Šorn Dr Kim Trogal
01 Dr Rosie Parnell School designs in progress being presented to students and staff 02 Professor Jian Kang Acoustic test 03 Professor Irena Bauman Design for climate
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Editorial And Review Collective Allan Atlee, UCA, Canterbury School of Architecture Nishat Awan, University of Sheffield Peter Blundell-Jones, University of Sheffield Gary Boyd, University College Cork Stephen Cairns, University of Edinburgh Peter Carl, The CASS, London Metropolitan University Cristina Cerulli, University of Sheffield Suzanne Ewing, University of Edinburgh Murray Fraser, The Bartlett, UCL Katja Grillner, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm Teresa Hoskyns, University of Sheffield Mari Hvattum, Arkitektur og Designhøgskolen i Oslo Andrew Higgott, University of East London Florian Kossak, University of Sheffield Thomas Markus, University of Strathclyde Peter Mörtenböck, Goldsmiths College & Technische Universität Wien Helge Mooshammer, Technische Universität Wien Johan Pas, Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts Rosie Parnell, University of Sheffield Doina Petrescu, University of Sheffield Wendy Pullan University of Cambridge Peg Rawes, The Bartlett, UCL Flora Samuel, University of Sheffield Tatjana Schneider, University of Sheffield Gabriela Switek, University of Warsaw, Warsaw Robert Tavernor, London School of Economics Jeremy Till, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts Renee Tobe, University of East London Igea Troiani, Oxford Brookes University Renata Tyszczuk, University of Sheffield Stephen Walker, University of Sheffield Sarah Wigglesworth, University of Sheffield
Events and Activities A wide variety of activities take place outside of courses, with both students and staff participating in a range of events locally and internationally. This year’s Whole School Event was the largest to date with over 300 students taking part.The Sheffield University Architecture Society (SUAS) runs a vibrant array of activities with the popular SUAS Lecture series sparking discussion within the school.
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Whole School Event - Designs on Our City On 12 February 2014 the entire student body of Sheffield School of Architecture participated in our Whole School Event, the largest to date. 300 students took up residence in empty shops in the city centre to participate in 18 workshops led by practising architects, creative practitioners, urban strategists, and UoS academics from architecture, law, town and regional planning, landscape and the enterprise team. The students came up with innovative strategies and proposals for creative uses, and produced work that transformed shop fronts ‘live’ through film, slogans, poetry and photography as evening fell. A public exhibition was held in the old Woolworths department store on The Moor and was attended by city councillors and local civic organisations, as well as intriguing many passers by.
Wednesday 12th February 2014 - SSoA Whole School Event
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Beauty in the City – Mark Emms with Tony Broomhead Carparks in the City – Satwinder Samra with Nick Bax Castle in the City – Dan Jary with Steve Pool Co-working in the City – Leo Care with CADS & Common People Cycling in the City – Paul Testa with Scot Fletcher Enterprise in the City - Ed McCann with Chrissie Elliot, USE Film in the City - Lakshmi Priya Rajendran & Ruxandra Berinde with Magic Lantern Film Club Greening in the City – Howard Evans with Jeff Sorrill Inhabiting the City - Mark Parsons & Ranbir Lal with Jon Orlek Instagram in the City – Russell Light Mediation in the City - Maryam Fazel & Sukainah Adnan Almousa No Rules in the City – Florian Kossak with Andy Inch Open Data in the City – Mark Meagher & Phil Langley Play in the City – Rosie Parnell & Masa Sorn with Dead Earnest Shopping in the City – Teresa Hoskyns with Sarah Blandy Testing Pop-ups in the City – Irena Bauman & Guy Moulson with SKINN & Sue Ball Who lives in the City? – Greg Penoyre with Ellen Page Words in the City – Simon Chadwick & Cith Skelcher
Beauty in the City Mediation in the City No Rules in the City @ Castle House, Co-op
Enterprise in the City Film in the City Inhabiting the City Open Data in the City @ former Woolworths store, The Moor
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The Car Park is a mundane yet everyday part of the city. Cycling in the City Words in the City @ former Halfords store, The Moor
We will work to reasses and develop opportunities for these ‘generic and mundane’ places.
Greening in the City Instagram in the City Shopping in the City @ former Poundland store, The Moor
We will observe, record and speculate as a group throughout the day. Nick Bax has produced artwork for Warp Records, Grand Theft Auto and Warehouse project. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. www.humanstudio.com
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But most of all – thanks to all the students who worked so hard with such energy, passion and endurance to produce so many ideas on such a stormy wet day!
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02 Projections on The Moor
08 Beauty in the City Workshop Poster
03 WSE Ambassadors
09 The day starts in Woolworths
04 Inhabiting the City Workshop in Woolworths
10 Play in the City Workshop in the Winter Gardens
05 Castle in the City Workshop Poster
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06 Who lives in the City Workshop Poster
12 Projections across the Moor by the ‘Castle in the City’ team
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SSoA Whole School Event Wednesday 12th Feb 2014
Carparks in the City Co-working in the City
Gill Valentine, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Social Sciences said “this was a hugely successful event organised by, and involving, the whole School of Architecture to begin work on envisioning new ways of understanding and re-engaging with key challenges in Sheffield. Many congratulations to all those involved for such an inspirational start to the semester.”
With thanks also to all our staff members, creative partners and visiting professors who led such fantastic workshops:
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Castle in the City Who lives in the City?
The event was part of a week-long programme hosted by The University of Sheffield, Sheffield City Council and Doc/Fest, bringing Marcus Westbury, Creative Director of Renew Newcastle, to Sheffield. Students were inspired by the work Marcus has done in Newcastle, Australia, reinvigorating the central business district by helping small, independent artists, makers, and individuals set up shop in vacant premises.The purpose of his visit was to encourage the Council, the University and local independent businesses and creative organisations to collaborate on a resilient model of home-grown regeneration of the city centre.
WSE organised by Carolyn Butterworth with thanks to Leo Care,Aidan Hoggard, Melvyn Broady, Barra Mac Ruari, Fionn Stevenson,Vanessa Toulmin, Sandra Barley and Marcus Westbury.
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Theory Forum 2013 - Thinking Resilience
SSoA Forum 2014 - Retrofitting Neighbourhoods
Society is facing major challenge of climate change and resource scarcity. Both will lead to shocks and our society needs to develop resilience in order to withstand them and transition to a sustainable and just society.
This years School Form was delivered in partnership with SUAS, BLR and Agency as another event in the series of Building Local Resilience Platform.
Architecture and Urban Design straddle many disciplines and require synthesis of many variants.This makes architects especially well placed to contribute to the understanding of resilience. However, much of the research so far has focused on mitigation strategies to the problems rather than adaptation strategies to develop resilience.
This lecture series draws together practitioners from across the UK and beyond to discuss their work and reflect on how we actively retrofit our neighbourhood to make them more adaptable, more liveable and more sustainable in the times of change. The emphasis of the series was on practice-based research. In particular we discussed the social and cultural engagements of architects in making resilient neighbourhoods.
In Thinking Resilience we explore some of the current research undertaken by academic staff in SSoA to examine how it informs our understanding of resilience at different spatial scales. The Theory Forum is one of the events run by Developing Local Resilience Research platform: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/research/resilience/thinkingresil
01 Architecture of Resilience 1: Retrofitting Neighbourhood and Goodwin Trust - Jonathan Wilson and Peter McGurn Organiser of the Forum Irena Bauman
01 2013 Theory Forum Poster
Chairs Irena Bauman Florian Kossak Satwinder Samra
02 Discussions at the Victoria Centre
Speakers Nishat Awan Peter Blundell Jones Carolyn Butterworth Leo Care Prue Chiles Teresa Hoskyns Lucy Jones Phil Langley Mark Meagher Chengzhi Peng Doina Petrescu Fionn Stevenson Kim Trogal Sarah Wigglesworth Organisation, publicity and catering Holly Barker Joanna Beal Aimee Yu Beichen Dovile Botyriute Sam Brandt Nicola Dale Richard Fennell Jie Gao Joanna Hansford Toby Hyam Ross Jordan Peter Lathey Alex Maxwell Charu Shila Mohan Yun Wing Ng Charlie Palmer Adel Sutcliffe Jet Swan Kim Swan
02 Architecture and Theatre Set Design - Nissen Richards Studio 03 Hybrid City - Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin
03 The students who cooked 3 meals for 140 people on the day
04 A Kind of Practice - Oliver Smith of 5th Studio
04 Preparations for the candlelit dinner
05 Facit Homes and Collective Custom Build - George Legg and Sam Brown
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SUAS The 2014 committee has worked hard to develop links with alumni and broaden the society’s outreach across SSoA to include staff, PGT and PhD students. With over 360 members, SUAS is now the largest it has been in the society’s history. Once again,Thursday nights have seen SUAS host a diverse and inspiring series of lectures in the Well. Collaborating with AGENCY and BLR (Building Local Resilience), the continued success of these events is a testament to the lecture team and committee members who have worked hard to put on the events. From practicing architects to theatrical set designers, this years speakers have included Paul Williams (Stanton Williams Architects), Pippa Nissen and Ifigeneia Liangi (Nissen Richards Studio) as well as Sheffield alumni Pol Gallagher (ZAP Architecture) and Alastair Parvin (00:/ Architecture and Wikihouse) to name but a few. Following the hugely successful SUAS launch in the Well, this year’s social calendar began with the time-honoured tradition of the fancy dress social – a much anticipated event that gave everyone the opportunity to get creative with their costumes.This was closely followed by the legendary Bakewell Pub Crawl which saw over 120 students descend upon the Peak District for a night of merriment in the traditional Yorkshire pubs. The annual summer ball ‘the SUAS Carnival’ took place in June to celebrate the end of the year. Another night of festivities and an opportunity to get creative, this year’s SUAS Ball was the biggest and best yet. 2014 has seen SUAS launch Life Drawing classes and a new student journal ‘ASPECT’. The graphics team have worked hard to develop a new brand for the society and the inter-year mentoring scheme has again been hugely popular. Lunchtime Specials, talks that are given by students to students, are now in their eleventh series.This year the Lunchtime Specials series has focused on the world of practice, offering undergraduate students insights into the nature of different practices, applying for jobs and some of the diverse career opportunities available that lay beyond that of the traditional architect.
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My thanks go to all the students, staff and committee members that have worked tirelessly to make SUAS 2014 a year to remember. Emma Low, SUAS President
02 SUAS Commitee 2014 President Emma Low Vice Presidents David Hodgson Estelle Jarvis Treasurer Andrew McKay Secretary Lucy Greaves Ball Co-ordinator/ Undergraduate Publicity Morgan Williams Parnell Social Team Emma James Olivia Radford Publicity/ Branding Emma Graham Alex Maxwell Inclusions Officer Bébhinn Egan SUAS Shop Robert Wilson Ethan He
Lecture Team Mike Horswill Kalpana Gurung Kseniya Sharin Stefania Tsigkouni Tom Walker Lunchtime Specials Team Emma Low Rory Chisholm Jessica Haigh Andrew McKay Matthew Pearson Kelly-marie Rodgers Tom Walker
Ball Team Morgan Williams Parnell Serina Kitazono Gabriele Pauryte Mari Shirley Kyle McCracken Lucia Pells Agelos Lc Hannah Towler Lucy Sanders Petros Antoniou
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Sheffield 1900 Study
Summer Schools
During the spring semester of 2014, the 1900 historical model of Sheffield grew by a further five squares, encompassing the area stretching north from Broad Lane, passing through Furnace Hill, Shalesmoor, Green Lane and finishing at the River Don weir at Kelham Island.
The Sheffield School of Architecture Summer Programme takes place over a week in August each year. http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/initiatives/summerschool
Making Cities
This year’s study was conducted by twenty-seven students from MArch, PGT and undergraduate levels. Led by Peter Blundell Jones and Jo Lintonbon, the group attempted to explore and analyse the Sheffield urban context through its form, use and historical development. Each of the study areas is a 200m x200m square, modelled at 1:500 scale and accompanied by a supporting research folder. In order successfully to reconstruct the urban fabric circa 1900, extensive research into the built form and social history had to be carried out, and valuable research skills were honed and developed. Students became familiar with the formalities of archival work, alongside model making. The research this year unravelled a vibrant and colourful narrative much focused on the industrial history of the city. The studied area embraced many building typologies, including industrial works, working class housing, churches, schools, and pubs. Although some significant buildings still survive as signposts to the area’s past, most of the low quality housing was removed in the early 20th century as part of a bid to clear slums.
Tutors Peter Blundell Jones Jo Lintonbon Students Y4 Rory Chisholm Aditi Ashok Lande Charu Shila Mohan Shilin Patwa Wei Zou Z4 Chaojing Chen Tingting Dong Ruth Jennings Ling Zhou Yuting Rao Z5 Zhaofang Chen Bin Guo Bochen Lu Yibo Yang Yaqi Yuan Yishu Yao Z6 Chang Hao Fang Hao Jie Hu Yun Li Manqing Lin Yiming Ran Z7 Alex Gilbert Christopher Hall Joseph Moss Farouq Tahar Lucy Tew Wijaya Yapeter
01 2013 - Big Buildings, Small Buildings and the Spaces In Between
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The 2013 Summer School hosted 12 students from Harbin HIT - it was our pilot for the summer school planned for 2014.
We are delighted to announce a 6 day programme of events designed to examine the fabric of the City Centre of Sheffield and propose solutions to vacant, underused and underdeveloped sites within the city. This is an ideal opportunity whether you have an interest in architecture or design, are a prospective student, an international student or from another university. Participants will gain first-hand experience of the design process whilst working with leading practitioners.
Four days of summer school were spent exploring the issues of place making and how large and fine grain building and their uses impact on places. We made site visits to the large footprint, single use developments such as Magna and Meadowhall, and to fine grain, multiuse ones such as Portland works. Students worked in two groups to develop options for the same site - they then presented to each other and reflected on the schemes collectively. The 2013 Summer School was led by Irena Bauman and Simon Chadwick with guest tutors: Anna Holder, Lorenza Casini and Julia Udall. It was inspiring to see the design talent of the students and their excellent language skill. It was a pleasure to teach them.
SUMMER SCHOOL 15th-20th SEPTEMBER 2014
The Making Cities Summer School will bring together both Schools of Architecture in Sheffield, the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, giving participants a chance to develop your interest in Architecture in a fascinating city with many challenges and opportunities. The Summer School takes place during the Festival of the Mind, an event which promotes collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the City in an 11-day festival where we share our most exciting research in inspiring and creative ways.
DESIGN TEAM LEADERS
Each morning participants will choose from a series of skills sessions including collage, perspective drawing and life drawing workshops. These will be designed and run by some of Sheffield’s leading academics and educators in the field of Architecture: Florian Kossak, Satwinder Samra, Russell Light, Julian Marsh, Leo Care and Mark Emms. Afternoons will be spent in one of 3 design studios on floors 16 and 17 of the Arts Tower. The 3 studios will be run and themed by one of the Team Leaders, Martin Mayfield (Engineer), Irena Bauman (Architect) and David Cotterrell (Artist). The studios will be supported by Simon Chadwick and Cith Skelcher of the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture, and Julian Marsh of Sheffield Hallam University, School of Architecture. Studios will be encouraged to test their ideas in 3D within a giant city model, which will be situated at the heart of the Arts Tower on floor 16.
Engineer Irena Bauman Architect David Cotterrell Artist
VISITING PRACTICES SHEFFIELD ACADEMICS AHMM Simon Chadwick Carmody Groarke Leo Care Hawkins\Brown Russell Light Penoyre & Prasad Julian Marsh Riches Hawley Mikhail Satwinder Samra 5th Studio Cith Skelcher
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Each evening we will offer a talk, walking tour or design review hosted by one of our highly renowned invited guests from some of the UK’s best practices: AHMM, Carmody Groarke, Hawkins\ Brown, Penoyre & Prasad, Riches Hawley Mikhail and 5th Studio. Many of whom trained at the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture and also employ our graduates. The closing event on Saturday 20 September provides a special opportunity to exhibit participants’ work mounted within the giant city model in Tudor Square, in the city centre, amongst the events of the Festival of the Mind, signalling an open invitation to the citizens of Sheffield, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Society of Architects and Sheffield Civic Trust. 02
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Architecture Students Network
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Architecture Students Network, Lines Drawn Conference, March 2014 SSoA represented by Ruth Jennings and Adam Tarasewicz
Students at SSoA have taken part in extra curricular design competitions, consistently winning and being shortlisted against other students and practicing architects on national and international platforms. This year the school has seen numerous successes in a wide variety of awards, ranging from international awards, to local enterprise and sketching competitions.
The future of architectural education is once more at the forefront of debate between the RIBA, UK schools and architectural practices. As such, the Architecture Students Network (ASN) and The Centre of Alternative Technology wished to find out the thoughts and opinions of architecture students from across the UK. This was disseminated through the Lines Drawn Conference, hosted by CAT in Machynlleth, Wales during mid March, and was attended by representatives from twenty two schools, Olly Wainwright, (architecture and design critic at The Guardian) and Will Hunter, (executive editor of the Architectural Review and Director of The London School of Architecture.) The conference was split into a series of small discursive workshops, which ran over two days. Subjects included the value of Parts 1, 2 and 3 under the current system, the aspirations of a flexible education system, the EU directive legislation proposals, and future of ‘the profession.’ Conclusions from the conference, in response to these workshops, can be read in detail on the ASN website. One major success of the conference was the opportunity to meet other architecture students from across the UK. It provided a networking platform from which to share ideas and enjoy a variety of architectural thought and teaching, unique to the UK and its architecture schools.The ASN therefore has a potentially divisive role in encouraging open dialogue and debate surrounding education and practice, “students don’t value the amount of weight which they have. If students came together as a collective great things could happen.” - Alex Maxwell, 6th Year SSoA and ASN representative.
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The UN Habitat competition ‘Revitalisation of Mass housing’ aimed to render monolithic mass housing into more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable areas by integrating mixed uses, improving densities and mobility and reducing their eco-footprint.
The Architecture Students Network (www.theasn.org) is an independent network of UK based architecture students. It aims to support and promote architecture student events and harnesses student opinion. The next ASN event is to be held at the Kent School of Architecture, so keep your eyes peeled for details in the future if you wish to be involved.
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Our entry focused on the Gleadless Valley housing estate in Sheffield, arguing that it is estates like it which are the predominant type of the mass housing stock in the UK and which deserve to be high on the policy agenda. The estate has build a reputation of a no-go area and is simply referred as a ‘long established housing community’ in the Local Plan for Sheffield, with no future plans or vision described. Through our proposal we strived to develop a strategy of how residents in the Valley could propose small change through existing policies, which could form the basis for a more comprehensive master planning at later stages. We strived to provide a wellresearched proposal which could be used a tool in future policy making processes. We were happy to learn that we have won the UK arm of the competition with the regional winners for Europe and the world winner to be announced on the 7th of April at the UN Habitat Annual forum. Now that the anonymity requirements have been lifted we will be looking to go back to the source and disseminate our proposal ideas in Gleadless Valley.Thanks to Irena Bauman and her studio 17 for the research which has been conducted by them in Gleadless Valley.
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02 West Yorkshire Society of Architects Dennis Mason Jones Award for Freehand Sketching 2013: Winner
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Nikola Yanev 02 Encouraging dialogue: The Icebreaker
The judges enjoyed the tremendous 3D quality without loosing the freshness of this well observed architectural sketch.
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Commendations go to Bochen Lu, Sam Milward and a Special Mention to Adam Tarasewicz.
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Awards and Recognition This year has seen many successes within the department, with numerous students receiving prestigious awards for their design work.
01 RIBA Yorkshire Student Awards 2013: Part 2 Silver Award RIBA President’s Medals 2013: Part 2 Nominated 3DReid Student Prize 2013: Shortlisted Guy Moulson A Theatre for a New Scientific Age Tutor: Russell Light A Theatre for a New Scientific Age is an investigation into the development of an architectural language that represents a critical form of theatre. Brechtian Theatre, or more appropriately Epic Theatre is adopted by this study in order to provide a structure with which to develop a suitable architectural language. The language of a theatre, as a building type, can be dissected and redefined in order to reflect the intentions of the material shown within. It’s metaphysical aspirations, of narrative, observation, montage, social being and inquiry are represented by the tectonic arrangement of parts, and the revealing of the otherwise concealed elements of a theatre. 02 RIBA Yorkshire Student Awards 2013: Part 2 Bronze Award Nick Hunter Startup EAST Tutor: John Sampson Startup EAST is about new ways of working - both in education and enterprise – and a paradigm shift in civic architecture and development. The project evolved through a critique of the economic vulnerability of speculative delivery – a system which has left vacant asset-driven buildings throughout British cities and failed to deliver regeneration projects through times of economic hardship. Startup EAST is a proposal for an economically resilient development paradigm, driven by the growth of small and medium enterprises. The project’s building proposal is the foundation capital project that starts this new development process. It revives the historic light industries of East Newcastle, whilst providing new civic and community facilites for the local community: a new public library, an enterprise incubator and a construction school. The building overlaps circulation and usable space to create a vibrant collective learning environment and workplace that helps develop future collaborative relationships. 03 SSoA Marcus Humphrey-Gaskin Memorial Prize 2013
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This project is situated in Neepsend, Sheffield and concerns the transgression of societies relationship with technology. The HQ of SHED, The Sheffield Hacking and Electronics Division, inhabits the site of an old brewery - a live lab for technological skills. Part civic learning centre, part technological market hub. The site is used as an urban test bed, construction through 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC mills. Everyone is part-time builder, designs evolving on the spot. SHED becomes a building that is always under construction. 05 RIBA President’s Medals 2013: Part 1 Nominated Edward Crooks The Theatre Of Progress Tutor: Ranbir Lal The Theatre of Progress, based at Chatsworth House, aims to deal holistically with the wider political, social and environmental context affecting the estate. The building adopts the programme of an audience-participatory theatre; sampling, compressing and simulating elements of the existing house in order to develop a stage set around which society can change the way we perceive and interact with Chatsworth. Drawing influence from Rem Koolhaas’ description of Coney Island, the extension acts as an incubator for future themes and mythology at Chatsworth, continuing a long heritage of illusion, playfulness, communication and influence. The building itself is not a revolution, but is the rehearsal of a transformation to be played out within Chatsworth House.
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Jessica Pallot Founded in 2011, this prize was established to commemorate the life of Marcus Humphrey-Gaskin, a student of the School of Architecture who died during the second year of his course in 2011.
Fay al Khalifa Supervisor: Professor Peter Blundell Jones The award was given for her dissertation entitled ‘An urban healing agenda for reform in Bahrain: where the dweller falls into the urban gap and the sailing boat hits the skyscraper’, which was completed as part of her MA in Conservation and Regeneration course at SSoA.
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Sheffield Society of Architects Established in 1887 the Sheffield Society of Architects is in the middle of one of it’s busiest years. So far, a strong core committee have already delivered a Design Summit with local Architects, associated professionals and students looking at the future of Sheffield’s retail quarter. The exciting output of which has been presented to Sheffield City Council and should positively influence the upcoming master plan. Currently, we are busy putting together events for RIBA Yorkshire’s week-long Love Architecture festival, which is a core part of the inaugural Sheffield Design Week. The highlight of this week for us is the launch of our Dear Sheffield postcard exhibition at Moor Markets; a project we started in 2012 to celebrate 125 years of the Society. Dear Sheffield is a fascinating collection of memories of places and spaces from the people who love and live in Sheffield. This project has been successful in reaching out to the general public and received a great response. We will be working with Sheffield City Council, RIBA Yorkshire, Sheffield’s two schools of architecture and other partners to deliver events for Sheffield Urban Design Week in October 2014. We are also assisting RIBA Yorkshire and Sheffield Civic Trust with Sheffield Design Awards 2014, the winners of which will be announced during Urban Design Week. Going forward we want to further strengthen our ties with Sheffield’s architectural students and academics and other partner organisations to help promote architecture and enable debate about our great city and the design issues/opportunities it faces. We are always keen for new members to strengthen our committee. If you would like to become involved or find out more about the Society and it’s events please email us at sheffieldsocietyofarchitects@gmail.com
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